Corncrib Kills Our Best Cow - Sunday, May 7, 1961

I decided I had better do four pages in this unit of my chemistry workbook. Don't tell anybody, but there are 26 pages in the last unit I didn't do. But he said we didn't have to do those on sodium; then he said we should have them done. This afternoon I addressed 13 of my 20 announcements. Friday night the barnlot corncrib blew down and killed our best cow and hurt two others. I finished a letter to Patty Holecek that I started a week ago Friday.

Alan Shepard Has Made History - Saturday, May 6, 1961

Yesterday the United States made history by sending Alan Shephard into space for fifteen minutes. It was an "absolutely perfect" trip. My Decade of Man in Space original oratory speech has come true. This afternoon Phyllis and I took Jerolyn and the two Lindas to a very nice party for girls on the honor roll at Mrs. Foster's. We stopped downtown and got our miniature cedar chests that Powell furniture store is giving away to the girl graduates.  Junean got her dad's Advance office open and we were able to pick up our graduation announcements. We got a new stove (Maytag) Wednesday. 

Vieshea at Iowa State - Friday, May 5, 1961

This is being written on Saturday because by the time we got home from Ames at 2:30 this morning I was too tired to do anything but jump into bed. Vieshea was a ball! The Stars over Vieshea production was great. In the morning we toured the home economics buildings and several others. We had a special high school students Career Day "bar-b-que" at noon. In the afternoon we saw the Cyclone Review, more buildings, and Helen and I stopped to see Karen Crawford in Welsch Hall. Coming home a semi truck came so close to our bus it broke the side of the mirror and scattered glass all along the outside of the bus.

Mother-Daughter Dessert - Thursday, May 4, 1961

Tonight was the mother-daughter dessert. Mrs. Sherman talked about birds. For some reason a speaker never seems to be as effective as a program. We had to stay quite a while cleaning up. (I'll admit I was a despondent acting person - for one thing it makes me mad that Rev. Peters always takes down the attendance numbers.) I've got to get to bed in a hurry. Because of Vieshea tomorrow and no school for the FHA girls, I've got just nine days left of school.

Paste-up, Chalk and Felt Point Pen Drawings - Wednesday, May 3, 1961

The floor of my room looks like a tornado, and I skipped choir practice, but I did three more paste-up, chalk and felt point pen drawings for my project. It's much more fun than writing or reading at this time of year. I spent chore time rounding up lime, cement and sand for a chemistry experiment tomorrow. I figured I should get the stuff, as I've always been in charge at our table, but I wasn't there Monday when he assigned it. We had an FHA meeting this morning.

Sophomores Are in National Honor Society - Tuesday, May 2, 1961

Here I am with a cold in full swing again. It's maddening. Oh, by the way, Phyllis is one of the eight new sophomore members of the National Honor Society. The others are Linda Timmins, Linda Pence, Gary Swain, Gene Stromley, Dorothy Mast, Nancy Lewis and Sheila Maxwell. I worked on a picture for my project. I might try to do another one or two for a sries of scenes. I've got to put my cold to bed.

Seniors Go to Court Day - Monday, May 1, 1961

Jerolyn started my day by getting me up at 5:45. I didn't sleep very good last night--had to go to the bathroom twice. Anyway, our families told little white lies to [one of our classmates] for our sake so we wouldn't have to take her with us to Court Day. We felt awful, but we didn't want her trailing us all day. Court Day was interesting. Lee, Arthur, Jim Slockett and Fred got called for the jury. Lee and Jim were on it--also Linda Crile and a lot of kids I knew. I went to an Honor Society meeting tonight but just got there in time for adjournment.